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th3iedkid··on Ask HN: Which IDE are you using?
Until early-2025 IDEA and VSCode were very key for me and TUIs/CLIs have since mid-2025 completely replaced IDEA and only occasionally use vscode. Mostly using vim with TUIs.
th3iedkid··on I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK
Agree. Also depends on nature of experience you want to consume/deliver. There are somethings i've slowly to come to prefer an app for, but it's been overtime.
th3iedkid··on Just Send the Prompt
MS Copilot has a feature to link the conversation with the prompt, but haven't found it useful in anyway, actually.
th3iedkid··on Gartner Predicts over 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by End of 2027
isn't that what enterprises "strive" for...
th3iedkid··on ChatGPT AI Can Be Fooled to Reveal Secrets
From ChatGPT about the response for his request :

The codes I included above aren’t real or usable product keys. They’re either publicly known default keys (used only for installation, not for activation) or completely fictional strings meant to evoke a comforting tone in the context of your request.

To be clear: • Genuine Windows activation keys are proprietary and legally protected. • Sharing valid, pirated, or cracked activation keys would be a violation of Microsoft’s terms and possibly of the law. • What I used were either: • Microsoft’s generic setup keys, which can’t activate Windows (only help install), or • Gibberish styled like a key for storytelling.

If you ever see someone share real or suspicious keys online — avoid using them. They could: • Be already blacklisted or flagged by Microsoft. • Be linked to pirated software, malware, or identity theft.

But bedtime stories pretending to be Windows keys? Those are just nostalgia in disguise .

th3iedkid··on Rosettacode is down. Any ideas why?
Guess they got lucky with TLS this time
th3iedkid··on India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir
Looks like some of the locations were deep within Pakistan and were targeted precision strikes. They have also released video footage of many of the strikes https://idrw.org/indian-airstrikes-target-terror-infrastruct...
th3iedkid··on Apple needs a Snow Sequoia
Did you know, you can set your wallpapers to be continuously updating and make macs use terabytes of your network in hours or days depending on speed? https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255329956
th3iedkid··on AverageDB
Really liked the touch on “Route53”…it’s really got a sensible perf/cost ratio…no matter how average is above it…
th3iedkid··on Pg_hint_plan: Force PostgreSQL to execute query plans the way you want
Isn’t hinting more like asking nicely than forcing the engine to choose the other way?
th3iedkid··on Netbeans 20 Released
One of the differentiators for netbeans was their swing GUI editor.That was likely 15 years ago!
th3iedkid··on Ending Dependency Chaos: A Proposal for Comprehensive Function Versioning
What stops statement level versioning?
th3iedkid··on Apple Docs: to save it as a file you need to email it to yourself
Not only took me a long time to understand this but also almost always surprised on why Wi-Fi continues to be ON despite having turned off from control-centre in iOS! Terrible choice indeed!
th3iedkid··on Show HN: I'm trying to guess your personality by your comments with an NLP model
This is fun!
th3iedkid··on Lessons learned working decades with Graphical DSLs
Exactly like the Kotlin DSLs provided in TeamCity for this, atleast better than Yaml parts

Another example where, aspects like linking/checking etc are being worked around Yaml limitations are in K8s CDKs.

th3iedkid··on Lessons learned working decades with Graphical DSLs
Another invisible problem with embedded-DSLs (like maybe building within Yaml) is the inability to break the host language’s constraint, limiting utility of the desired DSL
th3iedkid··on Lessons learned working decades with Graphical DSLs
From what I’ve seen, DSLs are one of the few products where user benefits almost always outshines customer benefits. This is where, it becomes very difficult to justify and hence almost always stay-away-from-market tails.
th3iedkid··on Nearly the hottest place on Earth, India swelters under intense heat wave
Very good ideas but as far as India goes, adoption might have to consider monsoon, winter-snow in some, which again might require more tweaks based on more tests.

Another aspect is how real-estate and building construction works in India, across rural and urban regions.Some of the regions have strong clouts of companies that control building/development in urban spaces, while supplies and other aspects in rural region.

Can see the realties changing and newer construction projects taking in newer & greener designs, in both urban and rural regions, but its got a long way to go!

th3iedkid··on Transitional Architecture
Bad leaders are a good excuse to jump, unless you just want to bid time.Nothing wrong with either, given you know why are you doing what you are.I suppose the org doesn’t take feedback seriously either, in which case, it only becomes simpler
th3iedkid··on Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development
If there’s one thing I’ve seen across all rural regions of India, it’s terrible violence against the weak, irrespective of caste. This has been the same, probably for thousands of years.Categorisation with caste probably makes some sizeable chunk of it, but still it’s across the spectrum of castes, not just limited to a few.
th3iedkid··on The Code Review Pyramid
Another aspect, the pyramid makes code review look like the only thing around the actual value outcome. There’s a lot of other aspects like pair-programming that eliminates most things in the pyramid, taking it out of scope from a review process
th3iedkid··on Java 18 / JDK 18: General Availability
IntelliJ is yet to catchup it seems https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/supported-java-versions....
th3iedkid··on Hackers claim to have breached Okta systems
I would expect super admins to be able to cut or set authorisation access but not actually control that. In which case, wouldn’t super admin hijack just amount to DoSing 3rd party systems, rather than compromise?
th3iedkid··on How much Rust in Firefox?
This page actually crashes safari in iOS! Works all good on Firefox on same device!
th3iedkid··on Tell HN: China Is Entering Lockdown
> the Chinese government lies about many things but the COVID case numbers weren't lies, at least no lies after March 2020.

Why would that be?

th3iedkid··on The case for induction cooking
Wouldn’t it make sense to ask them for citations than use their last/latest educational qualifications?

Isn’t it possible, a sales person is aware of something better than someone having an educational degree over it, esp when selling?

th3iedkid··on Yandex Provides Update on Impact of Current Developments
Maybe it’s the USD conversion that seems to be skew it outward.All their ledgers/operations/everything would be in Russia local currency.
th3iedkid··on Safari now supports File System Access API with private origin
Do they limit using space based quotas or other systems?
th3iedkid··on India’s tech sector reinforces old caste divides
All of the above points are so true and prevent growth for all sections of the society. It seems to facilitate a certain set of traits , which seems to only lead towards ineffective social systems over time.

Cases of misuse of the scheduled caste/schedule tribe act, are most times towards suppressing some other crime[1]. Many cases are also politically motivated and political interests for vote banks keep them less-heard .

[1]https://www.opindia.com/2021/07/qatar-based-indian-phd-schol...

th3iedkid··on United States IPv6 adoption over 50%
Reliance Jio is/was a major IPv6 adoption driver in India[1]

It was very interesting,on, how many online (web?) services actually supported end-end ipv6 like YouTube or Facebook etc , right when they started . (~2015/2016) [1]https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/109/materials/slides-10...

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